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Edogawa Ranpo Youbi Gekigakan

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

An anthology of gekiga adapted from Edogawa Ranpo's novels.

Volume 1
Panorama-tou Kidan (パノラマ島奇譚) [Kazuo Kamimura]
Jigoku Fuukei (地獄風景) [Jirou Kuwata]

Volume 2
Hakuchuumu (白昼夢) [Kyuuta Ishikawa]
Ningen Isu (人間椅子) [Kyuuta Ishikawa]
Imomushi (芋虫) [Kyuuta Ishikawa]
Osei Jigoku (お勢地獄) [Kyuuta Ishikawa]
Oshie to Tabisuru Otoko (押絵と旅する男) [Kyuuta Ishikawa]
Junrei Mangekyou (巡礼萬華鏡) [Mori Masaki]
Osei Toujou (お勢登場) [Ryoichi Ikegami]

Volume 3
Hakuhatsu-ki (白髪鬼) [Mitsuteru Yokoyama]
Yami no Kao (闇の顔) [Mitsuteru Yokoyama]


Tags: Ero Guro , Detective , Classic Literature , Anthology

Panorama Toukitan

Also known as The Strange Tale of Panorama Island.

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological

On a remote and mysterious island, one man builds a playground of hedonistic excess. His world is filled with splendor — waterfalls, palaces, and gardens — a grand back-drop for decadent bacchanalia and dark secrets. Set in 1920s Japan, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island follows the twisted path of failed novelist Hitomi, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the son and heir apparent of a rich industrialist family. Hitomi learns of the rich man's sudden passing and creates a desperate plan. He fakes his own death, digs up and hides the other man's body, and then washes himself up starving on a beach near the home of the dead man's family. After successfully impersonating the now-dead son, Hitomi takes over all aspects of the man's life, including his company, his fortune, and eventually his wife. The failed author soon redirects the family's wealth to his own perverse aims. A graphic novel based on the revered novella by Edogawa Rampo. Rampo was the godfather of Japanese pulp mysteries. Stunning artwork by master manga artist Suehiro Maruo deftly illustrates this Japanese pulp classic in fine detail. Note: Panorama Toukitan received the 13th (2009) Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for New Artist.

Tags: Seinen , Historical , Classic Literature , Philosophy , Psychosexual , Nudity , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Fraction

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

The first half of the book is made up by the titular story, a serial killer thriller that gets all kinds of meta and crazy as it progresses. The second half of the book consists of a short interview with Kago (and Ryuichi Kasumi, a Japanese crime fiction writer) and a number of short stories.

Tags: Gore , Ero Guro , Crime , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Nudity , Drawing , Work , Seinen , Satire , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Suicide ,

Sayonara Eri

Also known as Goodbye, Eri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

With his mother dying, Yuuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuuta heads to the roof of the hospital to commit suicide, but a meeting with a strange girl leads him on the path to making a movie.



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on July 4, 2022.

Tags: Meta , Filmmaking , POV , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Acting , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Family Life , School , Suicide , Shounen , Disability

Daisougi

Status: Finished
Genres:

A funeral is on and all the people with fetishes about funerals start searching for it.

Daisougi (大葬儀)
Daishuushuu (大蒐集) Daishiren (大試練)
Daishuumatsu (大終末)
Daisuikyou (大酔狂)
Konno Shigure no Koufuku Naru Hibi (紺野しぐれの幸福なる日々)
Toumezuka Sensei no Yuuga na Tanoshimi (遠目塚先生の優雅な愉しみ)
Nishikawa Chieri to Yukai na Nakama (西川ちえりと愉快な仲間)
DISC

Tags: Ero Guro

Uzumaki

Also known as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...



Notes:
Includes the extra chapter "Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga", which was included in editions later released.
Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Survival , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Gore , Episodic , Philosophy , Lost Civilization , Rural , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Curses , Bullying , Demons , Unrequited Love , Cult , Yandere

Bishounen Tanteidan

Also known as Pretty Boy Detective Club.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

The Pretty Boy Detective Club, a mysterious organisation that's rumoured to solve problems at Yubiwa Academy...

Manabu the Aesthete
Michiru the Epicure
Hyouta the Adonis
Nagahiro the Orator
Sousaku the Artiste

To search for a star she glimpsed 10 years ago, second-year student Mayumi Doujima calls on these five Pretty Boys to help her solve the case! Which Pretty Boy is your favorite!?



Tags: Detective , Shoujo , School